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This process closes the loop of inputs and outputs, and links the farmer in a way that makes him the worker, bound by contractual measures, in a structure designed to protect the shareholder (Lewontin, 2000). The legalities and government decisions made to shelter the proprietary nature of biotechnology inventions in the agriculture arena, places a suspicion on the intentions of the major industry players. When seeds have been genetically altered to produce no seedlings, or become resistant to an herbicide using genome control technology, the natural origin of our food’s existence is threatened. Lewontin compares the chicken industry, noting, “Detailed control of inputs and farming practices are entirely in the hands” (pg. 104) of conglomerate poultry companies and not with the farmer. As a benefit of these technologies, the farmer no longer has to rely on unpredictable natural inputs. This ensures a more stable income for themselves. The rise of vertical integration in agriculture was and is a necessary means to no end. Given all its faults in the United States, Tansey and Worsley (2000) noted strikingly comparable vertical shifts in Europe as far back as the 6th century. New technologies in those times included machinery to assist the labor of a farmer, and help increase crop production and for the growing population (Magdoff, Foster, & Buttel, 2000). Thirteen centuries later, “scientific experiments began to focus on how plants and animals grew,” (Magdoff, Foster, & Buttel, 2000) setting the stage for what's to come. Lewontin, Richard C. (2000) “The maturing of capitalist agriculture: farmer as proletarian,” pp. 93–106 in Fred Magdoff, John B. Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel (eds.), Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment. New York: Monthly Review Press. Magdoff, F., Foster, J. B., & Buttel, F. H. (2000). Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press. Tansey, G., & Worsley, T. (1995). The Food System: A Guide. London: Earthscan. https://www.treesbeesandpeas.com/change-requires-change daily 0.75 2020-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7d04fd033e750216a5238a/1599290816655-I96ZZU1IAQQLZMD7VESM/image-asset.jpeg Change Requires Change - Change Requires Change The guided principles behind sustainability in the agricultural sector are to, (1) create an autonomous environment whereby we don’t rely on mechanical or chemical inputs to produce food; (2) to preserve and conserve our natural resources, including protecting our soil and the life that lies within it; (3) provide safe and healthy foods; and (4) farmers should profit from their labor (Magdoff, Foster & Buttel, 2000). In his book, Hungry for Profit, contributor Miguel Altieri compares the conventional agricultural methods and their evolution during the time the book was published in 2000, and the then current state of sustainability and its future. He identifies several barriers to shifting to a sustainable agricultural ecosystem including: the sharp penetration of farm machinery that is designed to work with monocultures rather than polycultures; the number of farms decreasing, yet producing more outputs; cropping systems designed to plant and produce stable outputs with little risk; and finally, the influence of transitional corporations (TNC’s) such as the then Monsanto (now Bayer), DuPont, and Novartis (Magdoff, Foster & Buttel, 2000) monopolizing the chemical input industry, where self-reliance on natural inputs have become a thing of the past. Altieri does provide some strategies to overcome these barriers, but does confesses that “a more radical transformation of agriculture is needed”, that would involve social, political, cultural, and economic influences (Magdoff, Foster & Buttel, 2000). Grace Communications Foundation has several ideas on how to advocate for change, including supporting the "Just Label It" campaign (www.justlabelit.org). Citizens can get involved in advocating for the Farm Bill, which is rewritten every 5 years (www.foodandwaterwatch.org). Powerful alliances with organizations and people that can influence change should be formed, such as with congressman, large health and pharmaceutical organizations, nonprofits, and special interest groups. It will take concerned and passionate parties within government operations who can ignite the change, advocate for support, and have the stamina and courage to tackle naysayers and sabotagiers. "Farm Bill 101." Food and Water Watch. Accessed October 5, 2016. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/farm-bill-101 Magdoff, F., Foster, J. B., & Buttel, F. H. (2000). Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press. "Take Action: Food." Grace Communication Foundation. Accessed October 5, 2016. http://www.sustainabletable.org/1453/take-action-food#five. https://www.treesbeesandpeas.com/social-factors-in-the-food-system daily 0.75 2020-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7d04fd033e750216a5238a/1585609967152-LE6ZX9T2IVN54X6D15YJ/image-asset.jpeg Social Factors in the Food System - Drivers of Social Change Today, industrialism seems to be infiltrated in nearly all facets of the food industry. When we piece apart the social aspects, it includes the labor (used by assemblers, manufactures, wholesalers, retailers, and eating places), the advertising of foods, social factors that drive convenience and processed foods, food safety, and the actors involved in the food system. In Tansey and Worsley’s, The Food System, they note that Cargill uses the strategy of establishing relationships by “link [ing] suppliers and producers through its skills, knowledge and international expertise in commodity trading, processing, handling, transportation; food and ingredient processing; and risk management” (p. 107). Cargill has the ability to mass market their products, provide employment stability to its 66,000 workers, and afford complex food safety mechanisms. In The University of Michigan’s Life Cycle-Based Sustainability Indicators, authors Heller and Keoleian note, “labor is the dominant cost of food marketing” totaling about 13.8 million workers in 1998. It too mentions food safety, noting that in 1996 the USDA initiated the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Systems (HACCP) to reduce meat and poultry bacteria. Processing foods to meet the needs of consumer preferences is another key social motivator. Heller and Keoleian point out consumer demand is high for white refined grains, so the manufacturer takes the whole wheat grain, removes the germ and bran, and what remains is the endosperm. They then grind it and re-enrich it with added nutrients they removed in the first place. This is an example of a manufactured ingredient. Whole foods are those that are left in their natural state without any preservatives or additives. Manufactured foods are those whose natural state has changed, and the manufacture uses it in conjunction with other ingredients to form a new product. It is then packaged to be sold to consumers. Industrialization inevitably has changed the way food is processed. The influence of consumer demand has led to more hyper palatable flavor combinations with ingredients that fall far from natural. It is interesting to note that even those with the best intentions, we all can succumb to mouthwatering chemicals found in our foods. Heller, M. C., & Keoleian, G. A. (2000, December 6). Life Cycle-Based Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the U.S. Food System [Scholarly project]. Ikerd, J. (n.d.). Rethinking Sustainability; Food as a Metaphor [Scholarly project]. In Www.missouri.edu. Retrieved October 12, 2016, from http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/MichiganCMURethinkingSustainability.pdf Tansey, G., & Worsley, A. (1995). The Food System. New York, NY: Earthscan. https://www.treesbeesandpeas.com/ishomereallywheretheheartis daily 0.75 2020-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7d04fd033e750216a5238a/1599292429398-JI99OWOLAJRSUJAIF9W6/feet+on+ground+sherri+at+castle.jpg Does Bioregionalism Foster Feelings of Home? - Does Bioregionalism Foster Feelings of Home? How Scale Can Impact Caring for Your Environment To what extent can the scale of a place, be it your living space, your city, your county, or Country, determine your sense of home. Logically, it follows that people rooted in a place would be more inclined to treat it better compared to transitory people moving in and out of a place. An analogy for me in coming to this conclusion is considering on a very small scale; the place I dwell. I take care of my home, i.e. cleaning and maintaining it, furnishing it, and making sure those that live and visit it are omfortable. In comparison, when I stay somewhere outside of my home, I would not be inclined to care for it in the same way and to the same extent. Increasing the scale to my community, my awareness to its life quality would be heightened since I would have an intimate relationship with the landscape, its qualities, and the people that live within in. The variables that would deepen or lessen this connection would be to what extent I have interacted with and learned about it. Although “life place” and bioregion are used synonymously by some including UC Davis professor emeritus Robert Thayer, in which he states, “bioregion is literally and etymologically a ‘life place’“ (Thayer, 2003), this conflicts with the life place where the famous American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activitst, cultural critic, and farmer Wendell Berry describes it from a visceral and emotional level stating, “the intimacy the mind makes with the place it awakens in” (Berry, 2002). On the other hand, Kirkpatrick Sale, debates with insightful logic in the book, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision, people’s reaction to ethical and moral connections to environmental threats. He states, “The only way people will apply right behavior and behave in a responsible way is if they have been persuaded to see the problem concretely and to understand their own connections to it – directly, and this can be done only at a limited scale (Sale, 1991). I understand this reasoning. Regardless if someone is transient or rooted to a place, if they have not fostered a relationship with their place, there is an unconscious detachment to its needs. When the scale of that place grows larger, the challenge in developing a deeper connection with that place can be obstructed. On a smaller, manageable and tangible scale, author Sale states people “will do the environmentally “correct” thing not because it is thought to be moral, but rather the practical thing to do”, arguing this cannot be done on a global scale (Sale, 1991). When I think about my life place, from Berry’s perspective, an emotional struggle wrestles inside me. I have resided in my home for 6 years, so can I really call it my “life” place? True, I am slowly developing an intimate knowledge about this place, and know more from an ecological perspective than any other life place I have inhabited. But I consider whether I have developed an intimate knowledge and emotional connection to my life place. Berry explains this phenomenon when he describes what Europeans may have felt when they came to America, noting they, “still [had] not, in any meaningful way, arrived in America” (Berry, 2002). I do not feel that I have not arrived, however, I know that I still have more “arriving” to do. I know that my understanding is building an awareness inside of me, that is facilitating changes in my thinking and behaviors, that were not evident prior to learning about bioregionalism and what it means to have a “life place”. References Berry, W. (2002). The Art of the Commonplace. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint. Sale, K. (1991). Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Thayer, R. L., Jr. (2003). Life Place, Bioregional Thought and Practice (1st ed.). London, England: University of California Press. https://www.treesbeesandpeas.com/a-fall-walk-in-my-life-place daily 0.75 2020-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7d04fd033e750216a5238a/1599294413664-CL92LDAZZT0S7XASH62P/insect+in+wildnerness+sherri+pic.jpg A Fall Walk In My Life Place - A Fall Walk In My Life Place I walk out my front door. The sun is beginning to set and the air gives me a chill that reminds me it’s fall. I get distracted by Jackson, the neighbor’s dog, an elderly white social Labrador who doesn’t seem fazed by the wildlife around him; even the wild rabbits that live in his evergreen shrubs. I witness the fuzzy tailed rabbits scurry in and out of their hiding place. I scan the east side of my house looking for Satsumas and Eversweet Pomegranates to pick. I stuff as much as I can in my pockets and l lay them outside my front door. As I descend down the paved sidewalk, I ogle manmade landscapes, non-indigenous palm trees, nicely manicured St. Augustine and fescue, fall pumpkins on front doorsteps, and the eager neighbor hanging up Christmas lights. I continue on my concrete path, and come to a road that leads me to the Meadows. Along the way, bees suck nectar, butterflies whisper by, and birds chirp. The setting of the sun is near and their time spent in the last minutes of daylight will cease soon. As I enter the Meadows, the pathway is sharp and its natural form tells me where to step. This leads me to the top of a rugged and partly grassy hill that overlooks miles of walking trails that flow in and out of a micro “savannah”. There are no flowers blooming right now. It is peaceful. The sun has filled the sky with delicious bright oblique hues of yellow, orange, pink, and blue. Nature is astounding. As I weave back and forth through the dirt paths, I realize I have been focusing so much on soil, fauna, and flora, I forgot to look up. As I do, I notice a collection of goats who have been confined by a portable electric fence. Two guard dogs pacing back and forth protecting them, giving a growling warning as hikers pass by. The goats have been stationed there to graze the wild vegetation. They are rotated every few days as an alternative to using poisons. As I walk back home, I think about how these natural wonders were created. How long they have existed? I renounce my thoughts and acknowledge Wendell Berry’s insightful explanation. “We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it” (Berry, 2002). Berry, W. (2002). The Art of the Commonplace. 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